Max Pain (maxpain)

Bio

Max Pain is a Wall Street analyst at BSG, where he writes about business and economy topics that affect consumers throughout the region. Max holds an undergraduate degree from Yale and a master's degree in political science from Harvard University.

The people are the most self-congratulatory, self-obsessed lot I’ve ever encountered in a city populous outside of San Francisco, not to mention socially-inept and awkward. Talking with your average Seattleite is like talking to a sixteen year old kid with Aspergers who spends 2/3rds of their time...

India is hell on Earth. India is the not the "biggest" democracy in the world, as all Indians boast, but the biggest HYPOCRISY in the world. It’s all “peaceful” and great until you get hepatitis b/e from drinking or eating over there. Then you’re out sick for months with liver damage. NONE of their...

The social catastrophe that is Toronto changes the dating dynamics. Meeting someone becomes harder because individuals are dependent on their immediate social circle to meet new people. The fear of strangers and the reluctance to get to know someone new, along with the vast diverse population of...

Canada (excluding Montreal) is not my kind of place. It is basically a copy of America except with much colder weather and people. Canadians seem very reserved, very dull, kind of cold and inward focused as opposed to Americans. Overall, Canada doesn't have a core culture. The original Canadian...

It's only argument against blandness is the red light district and the "coffee shops" that legally sell marijuana, but I see those more as tourist gimmicks than truly Dutch elements. My observations of Dutch people: Tall and attractive; very wooden, stoic, and somewhat unfriendly and rude; very...

NYC is for people who like a lot of stimulation and the opportunity, not the guarantee, of being very successful at whatever they end up doing. NYC is littered with people who have money but don't care about meaningful relationships. There's a HUGE rich/poor divide, and that's means people in...